Your house and your kingdom will stand before me permanently; your dynasty will be permanent.’”

I chase my enemies and destroy them; I do not turn back until I wipe them out.

for the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have remained there as resident foreigners until the present time.)

Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, had no children to the day of her death.

He will build a house for my name, and I will make his dynasty permanent.

Look, I will be waiting at the fords of the desert until word from you reaches me.”

He gives his chosen king magnificent victories; he is faithful to his chosen ruler, to David and to his descendants forever!”

If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!”

So David and all the people who were with him got up and crossed the Jordan River. By dawn there was not one person left who had not crossed the Jordan.

Now the battle was very severe that day; Abner and the men of Israel were overcome by David’s soldiers.

Her husband went along behind her, weeping all the way to Bahurim. Finally Abner said to him, “Go back!” So he returned home.

When David later heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the Lord of the shed blood of Abner son of Ner!

They entered the house under the pretense of getting wheat and mortally wounded him in the stomach. Then Recab and his brother Baanah escaped.

David did just as the Lord commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines from Gibeon all the way to Gezer.

When they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and grabbed hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled.

David was angry because the Lord attacked Uzzah; so he called that place Perez Uzzah, which remains its name to this very day.

King David went in, sat before the Lord, and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you should have brought me to this point?

You made Israel your very own people for all time. You, O Lord, became their God.

So now, O Lord God, make this promise you have made about your servant and his family a permanent reality. Do as you promised,

so you may gain lasting fame, as people say, ‘The Lord of hosts is God over Israel!’ The dynasty of your servant David will be established before you,